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LENGTHY CIGAR OF A TUKANO INDIAN |
STRANGE, SENSUOUS SNAKE DANCE OF AMAZONIAN GIRLS |
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| Fastidious in his tastes, if not in his costume, this young boy is utilising a novel cigar-holder — rivalling in design and finish many civilized inventions. These tribal cigars are also used by witch doctors in their healing of the sick | Human snakes, with women's limbs and faces, whose flexible and, to all appearance, boneless bodies, daubed with crude colors, bend, contort, writhe, twist, twirl, coil, and wind into every conceivable shape and attitude. The girls are especially trained and specially fed for this strenuous exercise, and their earnings tally with their powers of endurance. The more hideous the contortion, the greater the applause from the spectators |